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CHENNAI: DMK and NDA ally PMK today opposed the Union Cabinet's decision allowing changes to the child labour law, saying it would snatch away the children's right to education and jeopardise their future. Referring to concerns raised by social activists, DMK President M Karunanidhi said the proposed amendments allowing children below 14 years of age to work in family enterprises or entertainment industry with certain conditions "will make a mockery of the Right to Education Act (RTE)

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986, which will pave the way for children below 14 years to work in family enterprises and as artists in audio-visual entertainment industry after school or during vacations. Barring these exceptions, the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 has proposed acomplete ban on employment of children below 14 years in all occupations and processes, an official statement said.

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986, paving way for children below 14 years to work in family enterprises and as artist in audio visual entertainment industry after school or during vacations. Barring this exception, the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 have proposed a complete ban on employment of children below 14 years in all occupations and processes while banning adolescents between 14 and 18 years from working in hazardous occupation and have doubled the penalty in case of contravention of the Act, thus aligning the age of prohibition of employment linked to age under Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

NEW DELHI: In a major overhaul of child labour laws, the Cabinet today approved a complete ban on employment of children below 14 years, except for some family businesses, entertainment and sports activities, while raising the punishment for violations to up to three years of jail. Making child labour a cognizable offence, the fine has also been increased to up to Rs 50,000 for the employers. The children can be employed only in non-hazardous family enterprises, TV serials, films, advertisements and sporting activities (except circus)

NEW YORK: American TV network HBO has won the libel case filed against it by a British sporting goods company over a report it aired about child labour in India. The trial into the libel case filed by Mitre Sports International against the Time Warner Inc subsidiary began in a federal court last month. Mitre had denied a 2008 report aired by HBO that said the company used underaged workers in India to produce its soccer balls. The 11-member federal jury took just five hours on Friday to clear HBO of defamation claims, the New York Post reported.

NEW DELHI: The government's key labour reforms bills on industrial relations, wages code, small factories and EPF are likely to be introduced in the next monsoon session of Parliament, sources said. "The Labour Ministry has been working on bills like the ones on industrial relations, wages, EPF and small factories which would now be pushed in the monsoon session," a senior Labour Ministry official said. It would be difficult to push any bill on labour reforms in the last leg of ongoing Budget Session which ends on May 3, the official said.

NEW DELHI: In a controversial labour reform, the government plans to push through an amendment to the Child Labour Prohibition Act in the current session of Parliament, which will allow children below the age of 14 to work in select family enterprises if it doesn't hamper their education. The bill will retain the proposal of a complete ban on child labour in any organisation, big or small, as proposed by the previous government, a senior labour ministry official told ET. "The cabinet will positively take up the amendment to the Child Labour Act this week," the official said.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to push labour reforms to improve ease of doing business and boost the 'Make in India' programme, Labour Ministry will push three bills for Cabinet approval next week including on small factories, provident fund and prohibition of child labour. The Ministry is keen on introducing these bills -- Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Bill, Small Factories (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Bill, 2014 and Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Amendment Bill -- in the ongoing Budget session.

NEW DELHI: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi today asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to regulate placement agencies in the city as a large number of children are being trafficked by them. "Huge numbers of children are being trafficked and are used by these placement agencies. An order was issued by the court to make a law to regulate this in 2012. We need to work on it and do away with child labour," Satyarthi told Kejriwal. The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner raised the issue of bonded and child labourers and its ill effect on the society and education of children.

MUMBAI: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has earned the wrath of activists for an "offensive" advertisement for a jewellery brand that shows a child carrying an umbrella over her head but the actress said the actual image was changed by the brand. In the ad, the 41-year-old actress is seen decked in jewels along with the child, dark and emaciated, holding an oversize umbrella over her head. A group comprising a feminist activist, a former chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights among others had written an open letter to slam the former beauty queen's recent print ad, which they felt also promoted child labour . "We wish to convey our dismay at the concept of this advertisement, and that you have, perhaps unthinkingly, associated with such a regressive portrayal of a child to sell a product...," the letter read.